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Gillo Pontecorvo, born Gilberto Pontecorvo in 1919 in Pisa, Italy, was an Italian film director, actor, screenwriter, and composer. He held citizenship in Italy and the Kingdom of Italy. His notable works include the films *The Battle of Algiers*, *Kapò*, and *Ogro*. His works are held in the collection of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
Pontecorvo received several awards, including the Golden Lion, the David di Donatello for Best Director, and the Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director and an Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay. He had three children, including Marco Pontecorvo, and siblings Guido Pontecorvo and Bruno Pontecorvo. He spoke Italian and played tennis.
He died of heart failure due to natural causes in Rome on October 12, 2006. He suffered from degenerative disc disease.
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Pisa, Italy
Gillo Pontecorvo, born November 19, 1919 in Pisa and died October 12, 2006 in Rome, is an Italian filmmaker. Of Italian Jewish origin, Gillou Pontecorvo is the brother of Bruno Pontecorvo, a nuclear physicist working for the USSR, and Guido Pontecorvo, an Italian-British geneticist, as well as the grandson of the Jewish industrialist Pellegrino Pontecorvo. He has three sons: Marco…
Known for
- La Bataille d'Alger, l'empreinte — Self (archive footage)2018
- Franco Cristaldi e il suo cinema Paradiso2009
- Gillo of Ladies and Knights, of Loves and Arms — Self2007
- Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker — Self2005
- Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers — Self2004
- Five Directors On The Battle of Algiers — Self2004
- Homo Cinematographicus — Self1998
- The Stupids — Talk show guest1996
- Pontecorvo: The Dictatorship of Truth — Self1992
- Return to Algiers — Himself1992
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Key facts
- Born
- Gilberto Pontecorvo , ( 1919-11-19 ) 19 November 1919, Pisa , Italy
- Died
- 12 October 2006 (2006-10-12) (aged 86), Rome , Italy
- Occupations
- Film director , screenwriter , composer
- Years active
- 1953 – 2003
- Notable work
- The Battle of Algiers Kapò Burn! Ogro
- Spouse
- Maria Adele "Picci" Ziino (m. 1964)
- Children
- Marco Pontecorvo
- Relatives
- Bruno Pontecorvo (brother), Guido Pontecorvo (brother)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of Italy
- Place of birth
- Pisa
- Place of death
- Rome
- Child
- Marco Pontecorvo
- Sibling
- Bruno Pontecorvo
- Occupation
- film producer
- Languages spoken
- Italian
- Notable work
- Ogro
- Sport
- tennis
- Image
- Gillo Pontecorvo.jpg
- Number of children
- 3
- Work location
- Italy
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- date of birth
- 1919-11-19
- date of death
- 2006-10-12
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- Commons category
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- medical condition
- degenerative disc disease
- has works in the collection
- Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Gillo Pontecorvo
- birth name
- Gilberto Pontecorvo
- pseudonym
- Gillo Pontecorvo
- start of work period
- 1953-00-00
- place of burial
- Campo Verano
- name in native language
- Gillo Pontecorvo
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Encyclopedic overview
Gilberto Pontecorvo Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian: [ˈdʒillo ponteˈkɔrvo]; 19 November 1919 – 12 October 2006) was an Italian filmmaker associated with the political cinema movement of the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for directing the landmark war docudrama The Battle of Algiers (1966). It won the Golden Lion at the 27th Venice Film Festival, and earned him Oscar nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
His other films include Kapò (1960), a Holocaust drama; Burn! (1969), a period film about a fictional slave revolt in the Lesser Antilles; and Ogro (1979), a dramatization of the assassination of Spanish Prime Minister Luis Carrero Blanco by Basque separatists. He also directed several documentaries and short films.
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